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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Sport Parade New York (U.R They al ways called John (Red) Pollard the "Indestructable" and ' the word out of Florida today seems to prove it all over again. , The name may not be very familiar to you. But 20 years ago it was a racing byword as he and the mighty Seabiscuit drove to fame and fortune to gether. - Now. at 46. Red Pollard is get ting ready for another of his numerous comebacks. It's like hearing that Walter Hagcn, Dizzy Dean or Jimmy Braddock is going to give it an other try. Yet Red is only a year older than the still active Johnny Longden. And he has proved many a time that you can not keep a good man down. Sat On Sidelines Pollard was at the top, as Sea biscuit's regular rider, when he cracked up late in 1937. Still nursing a broken leg, he sat disconsolately on the sidelines as the 'Biscuit, with Georgie (the Iceman) Woolf up, lost by a nose to Stagehand in the 1938 Santa Anita handicap. Barely recovered, Pollard went to Suffolk Downs for the Massachusetts Handicap. There, as a favor to a friend, he gal Medf Larry Beck Leading PCC In Scoring Los Angeles (U.PJ Washing ton State's Larry Beck leads the Pacific Coast conference basket ball scoring race after two week ends of play, statistics released by the PCC commissioner's of fice showed today. Figures on games through Jan. 12 showed Beck on top with 82 points and an average of 20.5 per game to 78 and a 19 5 average for Danny Rogers of Southern California and Bruno Boin of Washington. Beck ranked second only to Don Dorland of Washington in field goal percentage. Dorland has 10 goals in 17 attempts for 58.8 per cent, while Beck has scored on 32 of 61 shots for 52.9 per cent. Doug Smart, Washing ton, at 52.8 per cent was third. Dorland also was top-ranked from the free-throw line, having hit 13 of 14 for 92.9 per cent. Smart was the top rebounder with 17.5 per cent, having re covered 64 of 367 total oppor tunities. The three top teams in PCC play UCLA, California and Washington dominated team statistics. Of the three, Washing ton's performance was outstand ing with the Huskies leading in total scoring, field goal percent age and field goal defense. UCLA was first in free throws and Cal ifornia in total defense. Oregon State led in rebounding. Washington led scoring with - a 76 point average and shot 45.3 per cent from the floor, hitting 110 out of 243 shots. In team defense, California allowed but 51.4 points for the lead in that department. UCLA's lead on free throws was with a mark of 78.6 per cent on 121 points in 154 at tempts. Oregon State captured 162 re bounds to its opponents' 113 for a mark of 58.9 per cent. Pro Basketball Playc rers Delay Plan To Unionize Boston ;U.R National Bas ' ketball association players tem porarily set aside a plan to ; unionize today and put their ; faith in a promise by League . President Maurice Podoloff that : their grievances will receive a 'sympathetic'' hearing by club owners in April. Podoloff. in an apparent effort -to forestall unionization of the players, gathered together 18 ; members of the NBA s, all-star teams Tuesday afternoon and pleaded that they give him three months to set up machin ery for settling owner - player . differences "in a family man ner." ' The players then went into a three-hour meeting with their at torney. C. Keith Hurley, and representatives of the American Guild of Variety Artists, an AFL-CIO affiliate of the actors , union. Following the session, ' Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, acting as spokesman for the players, said they would take no action right away. - ,- The players have asked for an ; arbitration board for settling ' disputes, mainly pertaining to . salary; for additional pay for ex 'hibition games in excess of 20; elimination of the '"whispering fines" imposed by referees, and moving expenses for traded . players. S1P(D) MAIL TRIBUNE ytXSi OSCAR FRALEV ty 3 Sports Writer yf United Prtw loped a green two-year-old colt and it bolted. Red s leg was re broken, again he sat by as Woolf rode Seabiscuit to victory in the Pimlico Special. Shortly thereafter, the 'Bis cuit came down with a bad leg too and both Pollard and the horse recuperated together on owner C. S. Howard's California farm. Cam Back Together A year later they came back and the big horse and the little redhaired jockey fashioned a story book ending by winning the Santa Anita Handicap on the third try. But, while the 'Biscuit re tired, it was only the beginning of another chapter for Pollard. Until, in 1945, he was serious ly injured again in another spill. For a long period his life hung in the balance. After that spill, Red tried training for a while but, while his charges were supposed to be runners. Pollard commented quizzically that "they never proved it to me." So he chucked the whole thing. You can't blame his friends for hoping that, to keep the larder full, somebody passes him another 'Biscuit. Tribune Hornet Quint Beats Eagles Hedrick Junior high ninth grade hoopsters decisioned an improved Eagle Point freshman contingent 43 to 35 yesterday. First half was close with Hed rick having a 10 to 9 quarter margin and 20 to 19 midway edge. The Hornets boomed to a 38 to 26 command in the third quarter. Darrell Miller put in 16 points for Hedrick and Jerry Anderson, playing with a lame back, total led 10. Greenwood scored eight for Eagle Point. Gary McGill of the Hornets was sidelined by a bad charley horse. Hedrick is host to McLough lin this Friday afternoon. MNE-IPS: Hedrirk 43 Frohnmayer 4 Miller IS Deakins 1 Anderson 10 35 Eagle Point ' Jorde 3 Berryman 3 Cooper 6 Nease Moore 7 8 Greenwood Substitutions For Hedrick. Klie- ver. Lindemann. Parsons. Miles. Low- rev 2. Cantrall 3, Whitlock. Jensen; for Eacle Point. Pcile. Ever. Weit- man. Lemmon. Hugo 7. Anderson. Cousy Spurs East Team To Victory Boston (U P) Bob Cousy provided the East All-Stars with the playmaking and spark for a 109-97 victory over the West in the National Basketball associ ation's annual All-Star Game, but his teammate. Bill Sharman, supplied the high point of the game with the longest field goal in Boston Garden history. Cousy, the Boston Celtic's backcourt wizard, scored only 10 points, but his ball-handling and feeding set up hook-shooting Neil Johnston of the Phila delphia Warriors and others in a third period spree that gave the East its fifth victory in the seven games that have been played. Cousy's performance won him the most valuable player award for the second time in the past four All-Star games. However, Sharman's 70-foot field goal in the first period was the high spot for the crowd of 11,178. Accidentally Mada In attempting a long, one handed downcourt pass to Cousy, Sharman accidentally threw the ball through the hoop in as clean a basket as he will ever score. The East team converted 15 out of 30 field goal attempts in the third quarter. Johnston hit on six out of nine tries during the spree, three of them coming on passes from Cousy. The West squad, led by Mel Hutchins of Fort Wayne and Jack Twyman of Rochester, staged a brief rally early in the final period to pull to within five point 78-83, of the easter ners. But Carl Bryan of New York then contributed seven points in another rally that kill ed the West's chances. Bob Pettit of St. Louis wound up as the game's high scorer with 21 points, two more than Johnston and Maurice Stokes of Rochester. Boxing Results By UNITED PRESS Miami Beach, Fla. Chico Ve jar, 153. Stamford. Conn., out pointed Bob Provizzi, 157, Free land, Pa. (10). Widntsday, January 18, 1957 PETE ELLIOTT MENTOR AT Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Young Pete Elliott had two things today to brighten the future of any am bitious football coach: A three year contract as head man at the University of California and 23 returning lettermen to mould into a winning team. Elliott, head Nebraska coach for one season, was named Cal's head coach Tuesday night, re placing Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf. Athletic Director Greg Engle hard said Elliott was the unani mous choice of the executive committee." Englehard said the 30-year-old protege of Oklahoma's Bud Wil kinson would have a free rein in selecting his assistants. 4" " ! r-s ft f v VTT. , .. f A, ; RECTOR SHINES FOR PILOTS One of University of Port land's most valuable assets this season is guard Frank Rector, 6-0 sharpshooter from Medford. Coach Al Negratti's Pilots, who have accumulated nine wins in 13 games, have encountered zone defenses 11 times and in the clutch Negratti usually calls on the Medford eager for some of his zone-breaking 35-foot casts. Rector has hit 35 per cent of his shots thus far in the 1956-57 campaign on 27 of 77 field goal attempts. Last season, in his first year as Portland head man, Negratti called Rector up from the freshman squad and Frank performed very well, collecting 189 points in 23 games, swishing the hemp at 31 per cent. In the confines of Gonzaga university's gym in Spokane last Friday, Rector was instrumental in the Portland team gaining a split series. The Pilots won the first game 64-62 as the ex-Black Tornado gunner collected five field goals on 11 attempts. The Negratti men lost the second game 71-67. North Carolina Humbles NCS; Eyes No. By UNITED PRESS They have the record 15-0, they have revenge over their arch-rival, and now North Caro lina's torrid Tar Heels need only the votes to become the nation's No. 1 college basketball team. North Carolina, the only un beaten major college team in the nation now that Kansas has been whipped, bid to supplant Kansas at the top of the ratings heap Tuesday night with a rough-and-tumble, 83-57 victory over once mighty North Caro lina State on State s own court in Raleigh, N. C. It was only the fourth win in 13 games for Tar Heel Coach Frank McGuire in a redhot rival ry with State Coach Everett Case, but it could have been North Carolina's biggest move toward an unbeaten season. Nothing Works For State N. C. State, perennial cham pion of the Atlantic Coast con ference but hampered by the loss of scoring ace John Richter with an ankle injury, tried eve rything to upset the Tar Heels and nothing worked. The Wolf pack played a possession game early, but the Tar Heels took a 28-23 halftime lead. After a late rally that cut the Sport Car Run Won by Couches Lee Couch and Beatrice Couch of Gold Hill were the winning team Sunday in the first rally of the Siskiyou Sports Car club. They won a free lubrication job from Bud's Texaco Service of Medford. There were 10 teams participating with various makes of cars. Drivers came froifi Ashland, Medford, Gold Hill. Grants Pass and Eugene. The teams were Bill Huntly and Evin Thumer of Medford. John Collingwood and Janet Gowing of Eugene, Dick Eather ton and George Green of Grants Pass, Ron McKenna and Bill Messer of Medford. the Mike Forbes team, Jack White and Charley Beck of Medford, Larry Tolle and Herb Clocker of Med ford. Dr. Aubrey Hill and Mol lie Hill of Ashland, Bud Truax and Gay Lee Truax of Medford and the Couches. Sam Price and Nick Nixon laid out the rally run. A spa ghetti and meatball dinner was held at the Nixons'. At present the club is infor mally organized. Next meeting of the club will be at 1 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 27 at radio station KMED. Anyone interested in sports cars is invited. CHOSEN CALIFORNIA Officials declined to mention salary terms other than to say the "financial figure agreed upon was mutually satisfactory to both parties." It has been learned unofficial ly that Elliott signed for at least S18.000 a year S3, 500 more than he got at Nebraska. Simultaneously with' Cal's an nouncement, Nebraska reported Bill Jennings, backfield coach, was being promoted to the head coaching spot. Elliott inherits a team with plenty of potential. Of the 23 re turning lettermen there are three good quarterbacks and a solid line. 1 Ranking margin to three points and then faltered, State tried an all-court press but that backfired as the Tar Heels built a 10-point lead into their final 26 point margin in the last three minutes. Lennie Rosenbluth led North Carolina with 29 points and Pete Brennan added 22, while Ken Clark topped N. C. State with 16. North Carolina had only one more basket that N. C. State, but the Tar Heels rolled it up at the free throw line' with 43 con versions in 50 attempts to State's 19 for 34. In one eight-minute stretch in the second half, the Tar Heels didn't get a basket but had 15 free throws, 12 of them by Bren nan'. Watch For Rankings North Carolina, now ranked No. 2 nationally, and Kansas, which was upset, 39-37, by Iowa State Monday, now are idle for two weeks for exams. But they'll be watching for the new cage rankings early next week. Southern Methodist, the na tion's No. 4 team, barely skinned to a 59-57 victory over Rice to remain atop the Southwest Con ference. St. Louis, ranked 17th nation ally, romped to a . 91-65 victory over Drake in the Missouri Val ley Conference, breaking the game open after being held to a 36-33 halftime lead. Joe Todd racked up 28 points for St. Louis and Dan Callahan had 22 for Drake, but Drake scoring ace Red Murrell was held to 11 and fouled out with 15 minutes left. CAMPBELL PICKED Philadelphia OI.R) Milt Campbell of Plainfield, N.J who set an Olympic games rec ord in the decathlon at Mel bourne, Australia, has been named the outstanding Ameri can athlete of 1956 by the Phila- j delphia Sports Writers associa-; tion. The 23-year-old Campbell, I currently in the U.S. Navy, will i accept the award at the writers' j 53rd annual banquet, Jan. 28. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Basketball Scores TUESDAY COLLEGE SCORES By Lnited Press (East) Holv Cross 83, Quantico Marine 76 Richmond 70. Geo. Washington 57 Duquesne 76. DePaul 70 Colgate 78, Hobart 62 (South) Wash. & Lee 8fi, Presbyterian 5 Virginia 76. South Carolina 73 N. Carolina 83, N. Carolina S. 57 (Midwest) St. Louis 91. Drake 65 Notre Dame 86. Mich. St. 76 (Southwest) Bavlor 67. Texas A&M 58 SMU 59. Rice 57 Tex. Tech 59, Hard-Simmons 53 (West) St. Mary's fCal.i 91, Sacramento St. 49 Washington State 73. Idaho 70 Gonzaga 76, Whitworth 73 St. Martin's 63, West. Washington 62 High School Scores TUESDAY BASKETBALL By United Press Corvallis 63, Springfield 57 McMinnville 47. Tigard 41 South Salem 64. Milwaukie 48 St. Helens 51, Newherg 44 Forest Grove 39. Oregon City 33 West Linn 60. Oswego 43 Cleveland 64, Woodrow Wilson 39 Grant 54, Roosevelt 48 Washingon 59. Jefferson 54 Lincoln 53. Benson 50 Silverton 53. Canby 42 Hood River 54. Wv'east 39 Newport 61. Tatt 54 Drain 50. Yoncalla 42 Elkon 51. Canyonville 41 Mvrtle Creek 45. Riddle 20 Suherlin 56. Oakland 38 Glide 50. Douglas 48 Lowell 46. Triangle Lake 28 Lorane 55, Crow 38 CoDurg 71, Wesfir 41 Creswell 35. Cottage Grove 33 (overtime) Rainier 60, Claskanie 59 Waldport 53. Toledo 49 Knappa 55, Warrenton 54 Nestucca 46, Tillamook Cath. 42 Nehalem 56, Neahkahnie 40 Sheridan 56. Amiv 40 Gaston 49. Perrydale 29 St.' Francis 43. Willamette 41 (overtime) Harrisburg 46. Jefferson 45 iuslaw 56. Mapleton 46 Mill Citv 58. Shedd 39 Alsea 44, Siletz 33 Colton 69. Brownsville 49 Tripleheader Will Determine Oregon Titles Portland fU.R) Oregon's high school baseball cham pions will be decided in a tripleheader scheduled for June 8 at Portland's Multno mah stadium. The B division finalists will meet in the afternoon with the two A brackets staging their play off that night. Dodgers Sell Ebbets Field Brooklyn (U.R The Dodgers don't own a home in Brooklyn any more. This came about officially Tuesday afternoon when the ball club formally sold title to Ebbets Field to Marvin Krater and his associates. Immediately the Dodgers rented the park for the next three years. Dodger officials said they hope by the time the lease expires they will be able to move into a new home in Flatbush. the much discused Brooklyn Sports Center. However, since plans for ac quiring property and building the center still are lagging and in some danger of being aban doned, Tuesday's formal sale of Ebbets Field was regarded by some observers as the breaking of one more chain binding the Dodgers to Brooklyn. Detroit May Get NBA Franchise Boston (U.R) Detroit has been named as the probable site of the next National Basketball association franchise. Owner Fred Zollner of the Fort Wayne Pistons said Tues day he had been exploring the possibility of shifting his fran chise to Detroit next season be cause of falling attendances in Fort Wayne. Detroit, which had an NBA franchise that folded, was nam ed the. next logical site for ex pansion of the professional basketball league by NBA Presi dent Maurice Podoloff. See The Today NEW STYLING NEW ROOMINESS NEW PERFORMANCE 30 Miles Per Gallon Longer, Lower, Smarter Powerful Valve-in-Head Engine v SPORTS CAR FEEL EASY TO PARK PHONE 3-4381 i r ' -x vi 15, 4- V 4 f -'-V jV VICTORY SMILE Jay He bert of Lafayette, La., flashes victory smile after winning pro laurels of the Bing Crosby golf tourney in Pebble Beach, Calif. Butte Falls Mutual Five Win in M5BL MIliL STANDINGS W. I.. Company A (Natl Guard) 7 1 Pet. .87.". I Mutual of Omaha 7 1 Lea Motors 5 3 3 Hawkinsn Tire Tread 5 Prospect 3 Butte Falls 3 6 .333 Hdqtrs. Co. (Nafl. Guard) 1 6 .143 Asnlanrt National tji ..u.. 0 No lonEer in league) .uuu Mutual of Omaha regained a share of the lead with Company A of the National Guard in the Medford Independent Basketball league last night by overcoming Lea Motors 61 to 57. In the other game Butte Fall.5 subdued Headquarters company of the National Guard 44 to 39. Lea headed Mutual most of the way. The Insurance five caught up. at 47-all. It was see saw from there until Morris Jiminez knotted the fray at 57 all and Dale Newton put Mutual in front to stay with a free shot. Keith Johnson scored 21 points for Omaha. Butte Falls overcame a Head quarters first half lead of 20 to 15. Davies tallied 13 points and Sonich 10 for the mountain area quint. Bruce Bateman had 16 and John Drew 11 for the Guardsmen. Boxing Group Drops Sandy As Champion Milwaukee (U.R) Feather weight champion Sandy Saddler was dethroned today in a blood less coup headed by Fred Saddy, chairman of the National Boxing associations rating committee. The NBA officials had warned the wiry Bostonian Jan. 9, to sign for a titlt bout by midnight Jan. 15 or be .dropped from the NBA's rating 'as featherweight champion of the world. "We heard no word from Sad dler, his manager or a doctor who could confirm Saddler was physically unfit to fight," Saddy said. "So, we are dropping him from our ratings as champion." Saddler fought his last title defense Jan. 20, 1956. t McATEER GOES HOME New York U.R) British Em-' pire middleweight champion Pat ! McAteer, knocked out by Spider Webb in Chicago on Dec. 19, left j for his home in Birkenhead, i England Tuesday to complete I training for a European middle- j weight championship bout with Charles Humez of France in Paris, Feb. 4. White's PARTS SALES GP Grapplers Rep Tornado; Medford, Crater Slated Grants Pass high turned back Medford 34 to 8 yesterday in a wrestling card at Grants Pass. Gordon Owsley in the 129 pound class and Tom Morris in the 191 bout were the only Med ford victors in counting matches. Bob Martin and Charles Robert son took exhibition verdicts and Jim Scourey earned an exhibi tion draw for Medford. The Medford grapplers will be hosts to Crater about 4:15 on Friday at the senior high gym nasium. Crater defeated the Tor nado last week. Grants Pass match results were: 97 pounds LaComb, G. def. Comet Freshmen Defeat Phoenix ' Central Point Crater high freshmen downed Phoenix 58 to 35 yesterday in basketball con tention. The Comet crew led at the quarters 14 to 8. 26 to 18 and 42 to 24. Clare Huntley of the Crater club was high point maker with 15. Next tussle for the Comets is here Friday against Grants Pass. LINE-UPS: Crater 58 35 Phoenix Rodney 4 Fleyd 5 Chrais 4 Baker 7 Bryan Crater. Cooper. Toner 3. Eldred 2, Lamp. Korbol. Hamilton 6. Ate- Sharp Cote Huntley 15 Pfaff II B. Anhorn 3 Substitution: -For Woods 3. Michael 9, 6. Turner 6. Schultz Caster; for Phoenix chian. Morton. Hall 7. Abbott, Turner 6. Whisenant. James 2. . Coleman Grabs Pease Handicap Ray Coleman won the Ed Pease handicap at Medford Gun club last Sunday, busting 45 out of 50 clay pigeons. Don Petersen and Harry Tonn, with 45 birds each, tied for runner-up. At skeet Everett Gibson had 23 for 25 and at 16-yards Cole man also topped the list with 49 out 50. Bob Langhoff broke 48. Twenty-six shooters broke 2,300 targets. SOFTBALL DIRECTOR Albany (U.R) Bob Robert son, director of parks and rec reation here, has been appointed state Softball director, according to Ralph Guynes. president of the State Softball association. Robertson replaces Jim Dimit of Salem who resigned. If You MONEY PROBLEM Southern Oregon's Oldest Finance Co. Can Give You Worry Saving Financial Assistance CALL And let Us Process Your Loan In Advance! You Simply Come By For Your Cash Loans from $2500 $2,50G ON AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE SALARY Repayment On Monthly Installments Fitted To Your Budget! Commercial Industrial Finance Corp. Phone 3-4564 Sparta Bldg. Medford lew .1957 Ken Johnson, M, 4 to 1. 105 Williams, G, pinned Steve Passe, M. 114 Brunner, G., dec. Ron O'Neill, M, 5 to 0. - 122 Valle. G, dec. Bill Hamp ton. M, 4 to 0. 129 Gordon Owsley, M, dec. Taylor, G. 1 to 0. 135 Whiting. G, dec. Charles Acker, M. 3 to 0. 140 Condray, G. pinned Charles Finch. M. 147 Byrd, G. dee. Dave Aos, M. 8 to 0. 156 Phil Paquin. G, dec. Jerry Anderson. M, 4 to 1. 167 Winterbottom. G, doc. Francis Williams, M, 4 to 0. 177 Peterson. G, dec. Ga:y Heath, M, 8 to 2. 191 Tom Morris, M, pinned Slaven, G. Unlimited Medford forfeit ed to Grants Pass. Group To Accept Contributions to Pay Louis' Tax Chicago (U.R) Contribu tions to help pay Joe Louis' tax debt of SI. 119,000 to the federal government will be accepted by a newly-formed corporation, it was announced today. Officials of the corporation and Louis' attorney. John Payne, said they believed the debt pos sibly could be settled at about 25 or 30 cents on the dollar owed. Louis has no connection with the fund, which will receive do nations through Post Office Box 1174, Chicago, and Payne pro duced an, affidavit signed by Louis in which he affirmed that he has not requested or solicited aid to pay his tax debt and that he would not receive or obtain control of any money obtained by the Joe Louis Fund. BLIGHT h KNIVES Bergman's SHOP 3012 Crater Lake Highway ' PHONE 2-6771 Have A COLLECT 00 Hillman 36 SO. BARTLETT SERVICE
